Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 57
“This leads me to the brook where I drink! and this,” said he, turning to the one on his left, “and this takes me into the forest, where I feel about for dry sticks for my fire.”
Who acts: This, I, my · What happens: lead, drink, say, turn, take, feel · To what, where: me, brook, one, left, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 leads | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 leads | nsubj |
| 3 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 leads | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 brook | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brook | det |
| 7 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leads | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 drink | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 drink | nsubj |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 brook | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 leads | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 this | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 this | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leads | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turning | punct |
| 19 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turning | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 left | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 left | nmod:poss |
| 25 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turning | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 takes | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 takes | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 takes | cc |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 takes | nsubj |
| 30 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 turning | advcl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 takes | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 forest | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 forest | det |
| 34 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 takes | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 feel | punct |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 feel | advmod |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 feel | nsubj |
| 38 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 forest | acl:relcl |
| 39 | about | about | ADV | _ | 38 feel | advmod |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 sticks | case |
| 41 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 sticks | amod |
| 42 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 feel | obl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 fire | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 fire | nmod:poss |
| 45 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sticks | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leads | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 leads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead in a quote | present | This | me | the brook | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to brook=Destination | |||
| 2 | drink in a quote | present | I | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | turn | gerund | the one | Maker's left | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to one=Source on left=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | present | this | me | the forest | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into forest=Destination | |||
| 6 | feel in a quote | present | I | for dry sticks for my fire; about property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for stick=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fire in a quote | my | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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